[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-05-15 19:43, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
> On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8:45:00 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> It used to be a *very* reliable clock source. Power grids used to
>> compensate for drift because of load, so that over 24 hours, you have a
>> very exact number of peaks on the power. All type of clocks were
>> designed with this clock source. Sadly, I think power grids no longer
>> are caring as much about the accuracy of the frequency.
> 
> You can see the (near) real-time frequency deviation as well as the
> cumulative clock drift that it causes here:
> https://www.swissgrid.ch/en/home/operation/grid-data/current-data.html#frequency

This is way cool. I hadn't seen that one. Did you know I was in 
Switzerland by the way, or was that just random luck?

   Johnny